On May 11, 2011, at 1:09 PM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> IIRC you can't do that with CPAN today for example, which is why
> people tend to prefer to rely on the DEB packaged CPAN modules,
> because then the packager takes on the responsibility to backpatch
> fixes.
That's correct. It's the same for PGXN.
>> As for packaging what's on PGXN, I've discussed a bit with Daniele, Magnus, and Devrim (via Twitter) the idea of
havingsome kind of automated way for PGXN distributions to automatically be repackaged for RPM and/or .deb and/or
StackBuilderdistribution.
>
> Yeah, that's definitely something that would be *very* useful.
I think it'd be pretty do-able.
Best,
David
